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Lot 267 · Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

devotions upon emergent occasions, and severall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. meditations upon our humane condition. 2. expostulations, and debatements with god. 3. prayers, upon the severall occasions, to him. … the second edition. london: printed by a[ugustine]. m[athewes]. for thomas jones, 1624

Donne, John. 1573-1631.

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Estimate
$4,000–$6,000 hammer
Result
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Sale
Sotheby's — Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts, New York · 4 December 2015
Dimensions
134 x 79 mm
Record ID
TB-2026-4427537
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Donne, John. 1573-1631., devotions upon emergent occasions, and severall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. meditations upon our humane condition. 2. expostulations, and debatements with god. 3. prayers, upon the severall occasions, to him. … the second edition. london: printed by a[ugustine]. m[athewes]. for thomas jones, 1624. Sotheby's, 4 Dec 2015, lot 267. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4427537.

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Donne, John. 1573-1631., devotions upon emergent occasions, and severall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. meditations upon our humane condition. 2. expostulations, and debatements with god. 3. prayers, upon the severall occasions, to him. … the second edition. london: printed by a[ugustine]. m[athewes]. for thomas jones, 1624. Sotheby's, 4 Dec 2015, lot 267. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4427537.

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From the same sale Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts · Dec 2015

LotArtistEstimateResult
A Volume of Six Tracts $5,000–$7,000
Establishment Book $8,000–$10,000
Scribal copies of two letters Donne, John. 1573-1631. $1,000–$1,500
Speech adjourning the House of Commons Charles II $500–$700
The vith booke of vergills Eneads Sir John Harington $40,000–$60,000
Autograph letter, to James Gillman Samuel Taylor Coleridge $2,000–$3,000

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